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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Damor replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
So that, plus this from some other aggy thread: I realize it's a pointless exercise to think about this, but to me it's one of the sadder manifestations of the culture of insecurity and inadequacy at that place, and for some reason has always irked me. I've heard A&M grads brag about how opportunities were given to them which they really weren't qualified for, or how they were selected for things over competitors with a secret "Aggie Ring Wink." I really just shouldn't at all be surprised by the cognitive dissonance that displays with regard to the general political zeitgeist of that place, but whatever. When I interview a Texas grad, you'd better bring your A game. My expectations of you are now higher than your peers, not lower. When I'm working with a trainee who's a Texas grad, I'm more disappointed with you if you're not up to expectations, not more forgiving. I don't know why I find this so discouraging, although maybe it's because (unpopular opinion) I do have some very good Aggie friends who are very competent and accomplished, or because on the whole the state would be better off if that system wasn't so culturally bound to fuck up anything good it could ever accomplish outside of athletics. Just part of the cruel and tragic aggy shenanigans, I guess. And the problem is mine for thinking I could rationally understand that place. Thanks for listening to my TURD Talk. -
IMO a lot depends on what you want to do with it. I fish (poorly) mostly creeks here at home and a lot of smaller streams when in Colorado, and inasmuch as I've found a style, it's what I'd call "contemplative" and my boys would call "slow and boring." Even my carbon fiber rod is a Scott G. I'm not usually hucking a bunch of big streamers, and if I'm fishing from a boat I'm with a guide and probably using their gear. I love the feel of how fiberglass rods load slowly and how they cast, but it fits my personality disorder. It seems largely a special use case for dry flies on small water these days, and I love having it as a different "flavor." That said, if that's not what you want it to do and try to fish it in the ways that carbon fiber excels, you're probably going to get frustrated and hate it. And as far as the demo thing, if the shop has guides they might be able to check and see if any of them own what you're looking for and could let you demo it? And yes, y'all got me all hot and bothered so I had to go out and scratch the itch with this monster: (ironically on the 5wt carbon fiber rod and a Brushy Creek streamer).
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Agreed as above. Although I love my Ross Colorado 3wt as well, it does nothing but hold line. I overspent on it because it has sentimental and aesthetic value to me. And it sounds really, really nifty. If you're staying on a budget*, get a cheap reel and spend that money on good fly line, a lesson this board taught me. * you're buying fly fishing gear, we all know we're just pretending to be on a budget and are going to buy cool shit because cool shit is cool and we love it.
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Yeah, I think the Echo would leave you enough in the budget for that. How could you not? Think I posted upthread that I have the Animas version of that put aside for my older one's 21st, probably going to pair it with a 4wt Scott fiberglass rod. As a beer snob, I don't even like Coors, but those are just amazing looking reels, and I do respect that they have their own malting floor in Golden.
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Love, pediatric radiologist
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@Chewbacca I'll defer to the experts, but at that size I think fiberglass is a lot of fun, and also I worry a little less about getting it caught and breaking it tromping through branches. I have a nice burnt orangeish 3wt Echo Riverglass paired with a Ross Colorado that I love, and my boys try to steal it all the time. Getting summer trips to Colorado organized, can't wait.
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No, Mike Leach, YOU'RE awesome! [Pirates Last Voyage]
Damor replied to Parliament's topic in Football
Why, they'd look like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, tossin' out their own midget... don't matter how stumpy. -
If you get a hook, beware of walking under seagulls for the first few days.
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It's been forever since I lived around there, and pretty much everything I loved is probably gone (RIP Ginger Man), but I'd go with some scotch eggs, beef stew, and a few pints of the black stuff at the Mucky Duck.
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Thanks. I will tell him to accept no less than this on the official tour.
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"Will you marry me, wutang75?"
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I don't doubt it. That said, feel free to put anger to good use. “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” -HL Mencken (fifMIA)
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Anybody have any recommendations for fly guides or spots in Boulder or Ft Collins CO? These aren't areas I've fished around, but we're doing college visits in early June, and I'd love to take the fam out. Bonus points for fishing near the universities which would give our kid inspiration for fun things he could get out and do in college aside from gummies. Oh, and studying.
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Surely this song is posted in this thread somewhere. If so, well here it is again: Absolutely jaw-dropping fucking masterpiece, imo
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Damor replied to Seasick Sailor's topic in Music
Probably what @Al_4_ISU is talking about: The whole interview is really good. I'm sure there are mixed feelings about Bert (I think he's funny but I don't take him too seriously), but the interview may have well been between his wife and SWJ. She's pretty fucking cool. -
Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Damor replied to Seasick Sailor's topic in Music
Houston show for Stephen Wilson Jr. rescheduled for possibly the most "yep, that checks out" reason ever. -
Really enjoyed this one, thanks. Great vacation read, his prose is really great -- different without being annoying or pretentious. Going to read Peace Like A River next, I suppose.
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Got my fluid change this morning and I'm good for another 10. Regarding the prep, my instructions were for the Miralax chug, and I'm guessing they default to that because it's cheap and readily available, and so they don't have to deal with stupid insurance companies and denials. Since I have a stupid insurance company and I really don't like or drink gatorade or sweetened/artificially sweetened stuff, I asked my GI to give me a script for the Sutab pill prep. Naturally, my stupid insurance wouldn't cover it, but I found basically an online promo code that cut it down from $187 to like $50. I can't make a direct comparison, but just drinking a bunch of water seems a lot more pleasant than the liquid preps. It was well worth the $50 and I'd probably even cough up the full price if needed. And as for propofol, yes it's perfect for a procedure like this (disclaimer: no nurse paystub). Ask what you're getting, and if you're having any anxiety about anesthesia that's what you want. The lights go out and the lights come back on, no groggy liminal states or hangovers. It's stupid IMO that they tell you not to drive afterward. Due to short staffing they said they were running one room with versed/fentanyl, and I noped out of that right quick. The most difficult thing for me was getting it scheduled, which is why I was overdue. So throw out your own excuses and get this done, it's easy and it's important.
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@SimonBolivar As a fellow summer Coloradoan, I do agree that the drive across the NE corner of NM from Clayton, especially now that they have widened the road, is pleasant. When a summer storm blows through, it's quite beautiful, and I dig the volcano as well. Maybe I'm scarred by too many trips home that route, because that makes Amarillo to FW even more bitter and depressing. @Wiler77 Thanks for that. I have never stopped to check out Trinidad because I'm in a hurry to get past Pueblo and into the mountains, but I agree it looks like it could be cool. That said, I suppose it could be -- I never had a clue there was anything cool in Las Vegas NM until I was an adult and decided to stop for the night, since we'd always just rolled through as fast as we could to get on with it. As long as I'm derailing this thread, I'll also put in a plug for anyone going Western Slope instead of Front Range to find a way to stay the night in Taos at the Taos Inn. I always wanted to stay there as a kid because of the awesome neon sign, but never got to do so until I was the dad. Totally worth it, and one of my happy places in this world is having a jalapeno margarita in their front courtyard. Oh, and the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge is certainly... a thing.
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Yeah, while nothing on the way is exactly stunning as compared with the scenery once you get there, I can at least find something to enjoy on that route, no doubt fueled by some nostalgia. And the worst part of the drive (Lubbock to Clovis) is at least proportionally short (if pungent). Even Post has its charms. When I was a kid, the other route for us was to go up 35 to FW and then 287 to Amarillo and on. That stretch, especially from Wichita Falls to Clayton, is to me just the most depressing, soul-suckingly endless stretch of practically-Oklahoma that I would go hours out of the way to avoid it, and I'm a guy who loves road trips. And yes, the Allsups are much more plentiful on the former route.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Damor replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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Only been to Golden once (going to fix that this summer), and I was in deep smit. Jealous of the surls who live there, and I find it very tempting if I ever move. Sherpa House is fantastic. Only place I've ever seen yak on the menu (though for all I know it was marmot or something). Mountain Toad Brewing was great. Eddy Hotel is awesome but not on the "budget" thread. Staying there again to see Lord Huron this summer at Red Rocks and taking my kid on CO college visits. Oh, also, we're actually driving up to CB for spring break as well, so we'll be in the Texas plates caravan.
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